There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.
AGNES REPPLIERWe cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.
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Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.
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The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.
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Wit is a thing capable of proof.
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Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.
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It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.
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Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.
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It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.
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Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Every misused word revenges itself forever upon a writer’s reputation.
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